—SHELBY SIDELIGHTS—
By Bum Drum.
JUST THE other day.
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A BOY walked into.
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ONE OF the Shelby banks.
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AND ASKED a loan.
OF EXACTLY 150 Wrier,.
AND HIS story v.c. :
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THAT HE wanted to' aro
TO COLLEGE this fail.
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NOT HAVING a father
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MONEY WAS .rare
AND THERE was no one v ,
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TO SEE him thrmiyh.
"I INTEND to work
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AS MUCH iis I --an.
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I BUT I’LL need that much.
THE FIRST year.
j AND THEN I'll make it.
SOMEHOW, BY my .•If.”
THAT WAS hi.t story.
AND HE koi the money.
IT'S A hard time now.
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TO PUT over a John.
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j ANT) IT takes a good story.
FOR ONE to *ct hy.
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BUT THAT banker.
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OLD AND experienced.
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KNEW HIS boy.
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BY HIS tone of voice.
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. AND HE also knew.
THAT AS n rule
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AND WITH proper time.
SUCH BOYS as that.
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.CHOW INTO
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A BANK'S biggest depositors.
' AND KNOWING such.
1 ill-: DID not ask
h'OR ANY endorser.
OK THE red-tape note.
THAT BOY sinned.
AND WE feel IU..P.
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HE’LL BE paid by the boy.
AND I’KRIIAI’S in roirte other way.
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AS TIME toes by.
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FOR SUCH service.
AND THE < x tend iny.
OF A helping hand.
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I THANK you.
(With apologies to the interest.)
Our latest detective mystery is to
find the Shelby motorist who has not
flivvered over the “.Teen wave” in1
the pavement on South Washington !
street near the Dover home. A girl!
visitor here recently *aid that ever;, j
“date" always flivvered her down td.it |
street and over the “wave”. Seems J
as if it is one of the town’s show
spots. To the person whp informs The!
Star a.-; to the exact number of cum'
that have passed over that raison I
place in the street a free ticket to th<
missing link show in the midway ;.t
the Cleveland C< untv t'air will b •
given. The link thatwiu be missing,
of course, is the r how.
On the seventh fairway on the
Cleveland Springs gi If course there Is
just in the edge of the rough a pig
pen. Once and anon some haple.-u
golfer hooks or slices hiss drive into
the pen, and about as often one of the
pigs completes a meal with the ball
as dessert. Needless to say those pork
ers bear numerous names- by now, and
what names! Bat some day * we're op
THEATRE
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-■•PRINCESS
EVERYBODY WELCOME
THEATRE
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Shelby’s Modern Theatre De Luxe
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12:45 TILL 5:00
The House Of Quality Photoplays
I -NIGHT
I 7:00 TILL 11:00
Albert E.Smith
Presents
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AS. M. Hutchinson
J Stuart ftlacktou Production
W with
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Malcolm McGregor Mary Alden
Alice Calhoun Wilfred North
A gorgeous melodrama of
circus life, alive with action,
beauty and thrills.
A sparkling picture with a
glorious cast.
A drama of fresh, resilient,
courageous youth.
The photoplay sensation of
the season.
The gay, tinseled life of the
circus the giddy excitement of
circus day; the tnriHing drama
of the inner lives of the per
forn e
a
l:e «snang]ed enchantment
of the sawdust ring.
The story of a youth who
fought destiny with a smile on
his face and a song in his heart;
a gay anJ gallant lover.
A magnificent screen repro
duction of a traveling circus and
of thrii'big circus life.
COMING SPECIAL
TUESDAY
“VIRTUOUS LIARS”
WITH
David Powell and Edith Allen
COMING SPECIAL
FRIDAY
MARION DAVIES
IN
“ZANDER THE GREAT”
timtats—«nc of those pigs may gu
oat of the pen a id make some dub
golfer famous. (Y'know there’s nevei
teen a hole-in-pne on the Cleveland
Springs coarse).
Our idea comes from the story that
recently a banker at Blacksburg, Va.
/trove into the rough on the 164-yard
first hole on the Blacksburg links and
a kind cow picked the bail up in !'.c>
mouth and carried it to the green,
giving the banker a record eagle two
for the hole.
No telling what one of those pigs
may do.
According to the Lancaster News u
Charlotte man who is a most eiuhu
siastie fisherman on a recent <rio ,t<»
Bridgewater caught what he declared
war th finest and fightingest bass
ever nulled cut of that paradise for
fishermen. He. was so wild with joy
• vrr his fine catch that he wired his
wife who is also something of a a fi.-ti
er “I’ve got 'me. Weighs seven pounds
and is a beauty."
Here’s the reply he got that after
r.oon: “Bo have I. Weighs ten pounds.
Not a beauty—looks like you. Cento
home."
Readers of the column will remem
ber several months ago a comic com
munication from The Star’s former as
sistant ‘devil" and Buck Hardin’s erst,
while batt'wy mate. And this week
there conies another letter from Jupi
j ter, Florida, that speaks1 for itself:
“Here I come again. Can vim stand
i it?
1 "t noted nn article in Tuesday’s
; Star, wherein a local son was going to
exercise his. optics "by feating them or.
| Renew Your Health
! by Purification
Any physic inn will tell you thal
/‘Perfect Purification of the Sys
Jem is Nature': foundation o
Perfect Health.” "Why not rit
yourself of chronic ailments til a
; are undermining your vitality
: Purify you')* entire system by tal
| ing a thorough cotirse of Calotab.
—once or twice a week for sever,
weeks—and see how Nature r
'.rids you with health.
Ctdotahs are the greatest or i.
s. -st un purifiers. Get a fumil
f rick.ago. containing full dim
lions, price 05 etc.; triad package
10 ets. At any drug store. (Adv.
BILIOUSNESS
i Retired Minister Tells How He
Keeps in Good Form With
the Assistance of
Black-Draught.
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West Graham, Va.—The Rev.
Lewis Evans* a woil-known, retired
minister, now past SO, living here,
haa a high opinion of Black
Draught, which he says he has
taken when needed, for 25 years.
“For years I had been suffering
with my liver,” he says. “Some
times the pain would be Very in
tense and my back would hurt al!
the time. Black-Draught was the
first thing I found that would give
me any relief.
“M* liver has always been slug
gish. Sometimes it gives me a lot
of trouble. I have suffered a lot
with it—pains in my side and back,
and bad headache, caused from ex
treme biliousness.
“Alter I found Black-Draught, I
would begin to take it as soon as I
felt a spell coming on and it re
lieved the cause at once. I can
recommend it to anybody suffer
ing from liver trouble. A dose or
two now and then keeps me in good
form.”
Made from selected medicinal
roots and herbs, and containing no
dangerous mineral drugs, Biack
Druught is nature’s own remedy
for a tired, lazy liver. NC-166
m. WILKELMY
SAVED r FRIEND
Doctor Advised Operation
Friend Said Try Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound First
St. Paul, Minnesota.—“I was all run
down from overwork and worry, had no
I ——— - | appetite, could not
sleep at night, and
looked like a corpse.
I have six children
(five boys and one
girl) and did not get
any strength after
my last baby was
bom. I was getting
worse and thinner
everyday. The doc
tor said I had to go
'to the Hospital but
!■ i ■' — ■■ '■ ■ who x cuuiu not ao
on account of my family. So I went to
, a friend of mine and told her what the
; doctor had told me and sho said, ‘ Now
do aa I tell you. Try Lydia E. Pink
I ham’s Vegetable Compound as I have
' done. It helped me. ’ So I started tak
i ing the Vegetable Compound and I no
! tieed after the firat few bottles that I
' felt considerably better. After taking
19 or 10 bottles I got over my fainting
i spells. Everybody who sees me now
1 notices the great improvement in my
healtli. I am gaining in weight and
strength and am feeling One. Eat well
and sleep good nighta. Any woman can
write to me ami I will answer her let
ter.”— Mrs. Mary Wilhelmy, 309
Duke Street, St. Paul, Minnesota.
i.
the exoterical aspects of ‘Li’l Ol*
Newyawk.’ He seemed to be just a
little in doubt as to the safety and ex
peditiousness of his goings and coin
ings. while there. I have a few sug
gestions to offer him and others that
wish to honor that village with tlieii
presence. I will tabulate thusly:
“1. Don’t ask a taxi driver if he
knows where so-and-so is. Toi 1 him
where you want to g<> as if you know
exactly where it is and your fare will
be less. >
“2. W'hilp standing on B’w’y and
42nd. (that famous place, where ac
cording to contemporary Dction, ev
erybody invariably me»t), and a man
asks you for a match, give him a whole
box and walk away.
“8. In the subway, don’t stand aside
with hat in hand—exemplifying pro
verbal S’thern Dent’—square your
shoulders and when the train stops,
doors open, dive into that wriggling
mass and shove, people will thank
you for it, you push them in front of
your charge, thereby aiding them to
embark. Then scramble for a seat,
(try and get one), show no favors of
giving your seat to any one, unless old
or infirm. To do so you will bring On
a flock of curious arid amused stares,
(this is very piquing). When disem
barking at your station, follow in
structions of embarking, only exert
your push in the opposite direction
On entering the elevator for street,
same as embarkation.
“4. At box office for theatre tickets
once in line stay in or you’ll probably
have to walk back a block to find the
end.
“5. In the theatre ‘perchawnee*
‘Dixie’ is played, don’t pplaud, our
new Americans, fresh last year from
the old country, do that for you.
“G. In conversation don’t try to bt
Newyawky and say, foist, thoid, dis,
deze doze, deni etc., most New Yorkers
speak English anyway—then yen
might get mixed up and say ‘Youze
all’, too.
“7. Of course you will go to the
Brooklyn bridge. As you turn in at
Park Row, an old lady, with grey hah
and a shawl will accost you, speaking
in a tearful voice, ‘Mister, plcz buy a
peper’, the usual line etc., etc.,; but
curb your sympathy and hold the loose
change for I happen to know' she owns
two tenement houses down by Chat
ham square.
“8. Don’t be frightened when an
‘1/ train goes overhead, they seldom
jump the track.
“9. Don’t try to read all of the ren
miles of bill boards going in or you
might be ‘coo-coo’ coming out.
“Better turn off that static b-4 some
1 thinks I know something about the
place.
“Affairs around P. B. flowing very
insurgent (placid so to speak). The
real estate men are in their rendez
vous sharpening up their “advertis
ing knives’and ‘selling-talk guns’ for
this winter’s bag. Down Miami way
though it is said to resemble a gold
rush. All this looks cynthetic, infalt
ed and bloated, to me. What t say
could hardly mean much bjit what
have we speedum of f reach, I moan
“freedom of speech” for, else to ust ?
As Hnwkshaw, the disenfecten, said,
‘It looks ’spicious to me,’—when two
of Miami’s big bucks in the hotel
game shift a coupla millions up to W
C., for hotels, quote again, ‘It looks
’spicious.’ The Tarheels should take
Arthur Brisbane’s tip and ‘own their
own home’—he is as right about mat
as Sherman was about war.
“Now I’ll close this and mail it be
fore my conscience starts perkin’ and
forbids me imposing on your good
nature.
“oYurs till frogs wear raincoat.
and sir.g tenor,
Ex-Assistant Devil.
“P. S. Congratulations to you, re
gards lo Mr. Ernest and the gang—• I
tell Buck I’ve puzzled out the mean |
ing <if his old saying, ‘Beef Cat’ It’s
the ‘butcher’s kitty’.’
Young Mother Dies
At Tender Age 24
(Special to The Star.)
Mrs. Mull M. Patterson of the Kings
Mountain section, died August 2d,
1025, Mrs. Patterson before marri
age was a Miss Lovelare. She leaves
to nioiun her death, her husband and
five little children, an infant babe of
one week old, her father and mot he- I
a*'d the following brothers and sisters
Will, Andrew, Alonzo, Miller. Ode
Oliver and Jake; Mrs. W. C. Blanton
Mrs. R. Lee Blanton Miss Quince Phil
beck and Miss Ollie Lovelace at home.
Mrs. Patterson was a member ot
the New Battle Ground Baptist church
her funeral was conducted at that
nlaee by her pastor Rev. J. .T. Hicks
Mrs. Patterson was a true Christian
and was always at church when her
health would permit. She was a mem
ber of the W. M. S and three of the
W. M. S. members acted ns floavei
bearers: Mrs. Farris, Mrs. Oates and
Mrs. Hines.
Lincoln’s First Bale
Cotton Is Ginned
j Lincoln Times.
The first bale of cotton from this
year’s crop was ginned Saturday at
the gin of J. F. Lingerbelt in North
Brook township. The cotton came
from the lands of W. L. Cansler and
was raised by T. Ray Houser.
The bale weighed 425 pounds end
produced 1021 pounds of seed.
Does your husband bore you? Does
he always hang around when he isn’t
wanted? Would you like to lend him
out for one afternoon and night ? If
so apply in person any night this
week at Princess theatre. We can use
him, Friday September 4th. ad
ECK & STEPHENS
Certified Public
Gastonia, N. ('.
Systems — Audits — jn.
vest igat ions.
Income Tax Specialists.
T. W. EBELTOFT
grocer and
I BOOK SELLER
PHONE-_ 82
EXECUTOR’S NOTHT.
Having thi:' day qualified art exwn
ter of the* will of C. I!. Carpenter ,ie
ceased, late of Cleveland county’ \
C., notice is hereby given to all' pa‘r;
ties having claims against said estne
to present them to me properly juov
On for payment on or before Atieusi
22nd 1920, or this notice will ho pi(,a(j
ed in bar of their recovery.. All
son indebted to said estate' will make
immediate payment to the undersign,
ed. This August 22nd. 1925
JOEL W. WRFGHT. Executor of
the will of 0. IT. Carnehter, deed.
Ryburn and Hoey, Attys.
Tested
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$100.00 Identification ami
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In Addition To The
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